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...social policy for dealing with those who have no hope.Prior to the massive deinstitutionalization undertaken in the 1980s, the U.S. government acknowledged that it was our responsibility to ensure that mentally ill people received minimal assistance. But despite the surge in homelessness that followed the shift away from government oversight, nothing we’ve done since has helped to stem the tide. Would forced rehabilitation completely solve vagrancy? Sadly, no. Would it attract a swarm of lawyers? Sadly, yes. But those of us who truly believe it is our duty to help fellow citizens in need must be willing...
...peaceful and law-abiding as any other group, but behave as though they don't quite believe it. Those on the outside have been suspicious of Australian Muslims, and slow to engage them; they have been slow to draw new police officers and intelligence agents from among them. That oversight will take a long time to correct. But the prospect of attracting Muslim recruits will be fatally diminished if they can be persuaded that the country's democratic principles are entirely disposable where their co- religionists are concerned. The extremists are efficient at spreading their poison; it would be prudent...
...either Gingrich or the White House to bring the substantive work of the next Congress to a halt. The big question is whether either man can control his own partisans in the House, like Democratic whip David Bonior or Republican Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which will look into just about everything labeled Bill and Hillary. If Democrats insist on a full-bore pursuit of Gingrich, Republicans will seek the blood of the Clintons later this year or next. Washington is not so different from ancient Rome. It may talk a lot about ethics...
...corporations,” he said. “No one has ever identified any cancers from chromium-6. You can claim it, but you can’t prove it.”John Sullivan, president of the Civil Justice Association of California, a litigation oversight group endorsed by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., sent a letter to Dean of HSPH Barry R. Bloom outlining his view that Brockovich-Ellis should not be honored with the award. “It is really amazing and shocking that a school of public health would endorse medical junk science...
...former chief Jack R. Meyer. Meyer exited after 15 years at Harvard with a team of top HMC executives to form a new hedge fund, Convexity Capital Management.HMC board member Peter A. Nadosy ’68, who has been managing the endowment in the interim, will continue his oversight until El-Erian starts work early next year.A Harvard outsider, El-Erian said in an interview that he was drawn by the chance to manage funds in an academic setting, interact with the University community, and work with HMC staff—a group with which he met on Friday...